If they [mexicans] cross the border, I think, and they are violating the law, then that word criminal does connect with that violation, so if they're…

- Joe Arpaio

This is the sheriff you’re talking about, with a gun and badge that enforces the law. Nothing is going to stop me from cracking down on illegal immig…

- Joe Arpaio

Everything I did in the jails - chain gangs, everything - I haven't changed the policy. I did it, I stand by it, and I'm not going to change.

- Joe Arpaio

I'm an equal-opportunity law-enforcement guy - I lock everybody up.

- Joe Arpaio

I don't use e-mail or u-mail or whatever it's called.

- Joe Arpaio

I am the constitutionally and legitimately elected sheriff, and I absolutely refuse to surrender my responsibility to the federal government.

- Joe Arpaio

You go to London, you see a TV set in every cell and the sign up that all the officers must treat prisoners with dignity. What about your dedicated s…

- Joe Arpaio

If you come across illegal aliens committing crimes, other crimes, you deport them.

- Joe Arpaio

I don't bow down to the federal government.

- Joe Arpaio